One of the most important tasks for Managers and Supervisors is coaching their employees. Learn the skills you need to be an effective coach.

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Note:Click Here to see a Sample Kindle Version. U.S. users can order directly. Global users should either click here, or visit your applicable Amazon website and input “Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors” in the search criteria.

One of the most important tasks for Managers and Supervisors is coaching their employees.

Good Coaching:

Helps employees understand what they should be doing and how.

Provides employees with important information on whether they are performing up to expectation and if not, how far off the mark they are.

Yet as important as it is, for many Managers and Supervisors, it’s also one of the most dreaded. Managers and Supervisors often worry that their employees will react negatively to a coaching discussion. Without the proper ground work employees may feel caught off guard, and indeed react negatively to what they consider as unwarranted criticism.

Despite these reservations, the ability to effectively coach employees and help them attain the desired level of performance and/or development is often the difference between a successful or unsuccessful Manager or Supervisor. Consequently, as a Supervisor or Manager, the ability to successfully coach your employees is one of the most important skill sets you need to develop.

Successful Coaching Efforts

Successful coaching involves a number of key ingredients. Some of the most important are:

The Manager/Supervisor has credibility in the employee’s eyes that the Manager/Supervisor knows what they’re talking about.

The employee trusts the coach’s opinion.

The Manager/Supervisor sets an environment conducive to effective communication.

The Manager/Supervisor makes sure that the employee receives the needed training on how to perform as expected.

Performance expectations and measurement criteria are clear.

Feedback on the employee’s performance is accurate.

The Manager/Supervisor provides feedback on things done well as well as areas needing improvement.

The Manager/Supervisor actively involves the employee’s ideas on how to make needed improvements.

Coaching Efforts That Fail

When coaching fails, it’s also often for some key reasons. Some of the common ones are:

The employee doesn’t trust the Manager/Supervisor.

The Manager/Supervisor hasn’t established credibility in the employee’s eyes that they know what they are talking about.

The Manager/Supervisor sets a threatening atmosphere for the discussion.

The Manager/Supervisor hasn’t trained the employee how to perform as expected.

The employee doesn’t feel they’ve been told the applicable performance expectations and how they’re going to be measured.

The employee doesn’t feel the Manager/Supervisor’s feedback is accurate and objective.

The Supervisor/Manager can’t provide specific examples of what the employee needs to improve.

The Manager/Supervisor only concentrates on what the employee needs to improve and doesn’t praise things done well.

So How Do I Learn These Skills?

To help you learn how to coach effectively, KAW Consulting developed “Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors” an electronic handbook that walks you step by step through the process of how to coach your employees effectively.

Written in clear, easy to understand language, you’ll learn how to:

Establish the groundwork to have an effective coaching relationship with your employees.

Hold an effective coaching discussion to provide employees with feedback on how they are doing, and develop plans for making needed improvements.

We’ve even included sample forms you can use to identify how you want to define expected levels of performance, develop training plans, analyze how well your employees are performing, and plan an effective coaching discussion.

Available in both Kindle and PDF

To meet the demands of our global users, “Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors”is now available in both Kindle and PDF versions. U.S. purchasers can purchase both. International users eligible to purchase from Amazon can purchase the Kindle Version. Both versions allow you to have it accessible each time you need to coach an employee.

KINDLE Version

Click Here to see a Sample Kindle Version. U.S. users can order directly. Global users should either click here, or visit your applicable Amazon website and input “Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors” in the search criteria.

PDF Version

For U.S. users, the PDF version allows you to store “Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors” on your computer so you have it accessible each time you need to coach an employee. It includes hyperlinks so you can jump right to the page or section you need without having to spend time scrolling through unneeded pages. If you want hard copy you can print what you need.

You can purchase single copies or share with additional users by purchasing additional licenses. This makes it easy for organizations to increase the productivity of their staffs.

You can buy single copies for the low price of $21.95.

Sharing with additional users is also easy–just purchase additional licenses at $19.95 per user.

To view a sample and instructions on how to purchase the PDF version online click here.

Note: PDF Version available to only U.S. customers at this time.

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Author: KAW Consulting

KAW Consulting provides Training and Development, Organizational Development, Teambuilding, Strategic Planning and Human Resource Consulting.
Since 1994, our Core Competence has been helping organizations meet their business and strategic goals by identifying and developing the needed human resource capability to achieve these goals.
KAW also provides the Manager's Toolkit, a series of Team and Personal productivity tools aimed at helping Managers, Supervisors and Team Members succeed in some of their most challenging tasks such as:
Designing and Running Better Meetings,
Holding effective Team Discussions,
Delegating Work Successfully,
Managing Projects,
Time Management,
Coaching Employees, and
Leading Effectively.
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